This year’s Big Spring Clean event on Wednesday 24th February saw over 100 volunteers make their way down to Egham, Englefield Green and a number of other villages with the goal of cleaning up the local community.

Students undertook the tasks of repainting planters at St Jude’s School in Englefield Green, sprucing up gardens at Lynwood Residential Home in Sunninghill and removing trolleys from the River Thames, among many others.

Absolute Harmony and Revolution Rock Gospel societies also organized the first ever ‘Sing Up’ at Englefield Green Infant School. Royal Holloway’s Community Action Volunteer Manager, Phil Simcock, spoke highly of the initiative, explaining the positive impact the projects have had this year on the community.

Friday 26th saw further volunteering events taking place, with the Men’s Rugby Club partnering with Enterprise Rent-A-Car staff to carry out the second wave of the ‘Sunken Garden’ transformation project at Merlewood Residential Home, as well as a painting team at the new non-contact Boxing Gym set up by Surrey Police and Runnymede Borough Council.

The event was overall a success and the Volunteering Management team has high hopes for the event next year.